Blue Sky England

It's not often you spend 3 weeks in England with almost no rain but we hit a lucky streak on our return visit and had glorious weather pretty much the whole time. We walked into Richmond one day and stopped in the playground for a quick climb.



Then strolled into town

Having been local for a while we headed up to Cambridge, or Ely to be more precise to see my Dad and Sarah and spent the afternoon looking round the town and the gorgeous colleges and punting on the river






You can either get a guided tour with a professional punter or you can try it yourself which sometimes has mixed results as this guy found out.


A couple of interesting facts from the punting. I just missed this in the photo but some of the windows in this old building were boarded up, that comes from a time when there was a tax placed on windows! The phrase 'daylight robbery' also comes from that tax.
And here is the pub where The Pink Floyd played their first ever gig.
We went into town on the graduation day of one of the colleges so there were plenty of gowns and costumes about. Seeing so many people on bikes made me realize one of the differences between the US and UK, in the US the bicycle is used for recreational or fitness activities whereas in the UK it is also a utility vehicle and people use it to get around which you never see in the US (or at least we haven't so far)